Yank
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To yank is a verb, meaning "to pull hard". For example, someone observing someone else having difficulty pulling a bath plug out of its hole might say "go on, give it a good yank".
"Yank" may also refer to:
- Yank, an abbreviated form of Yankee, a word used in some English-speaking countries to refer to Americans, and within the USA to refer to Northerners
- Yank, the Army Weekly, a newspaper for American soldiers during World War II
- Yank (physics), the rate of change in force
- Yanks, a 1979 film
- Yank Rachell bluesman, mandolin and guitar player.
- Yank, the name for the copy command in vi and the paste command in Emacs, two commonly used unix/linux text editor.